I/ITSEC 2022

The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) is the world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training event. Visit Cesium in booth 2266.

The Road to the Open Metaverse

Achieving a metaverse for all will require unprecedented cooperation. Leaders from the industry will share their vision for an open and inclusive metaverse. Patrick Cozzi joins Brian Markwalter and Edwina Fitzmaurice for this panel at CES 2023.

Unreal Fest 2022

Brady Moore, Cesium's Director of Mission Support will join the panel discussion, The World is Your Canvas: Building 3D Global Scale Real or Imaginary Worlds, alongside Sébastien Lozé, Unreal Engine Business Director, Simulation, Epic Games; David Cardella, Program Management Lead for Developer Technology, Esri; Dan Nord, Chief Product Officer & SVP, MAXAR; and Michael Putz, CEO, BlackShark AI.

O3DCon 2022

Shehzan Mohammed, Cesium's Director of 3D Engineering & Ecosystems, will be speaking at O3DCon, the Open 3D Foundation’s flagship conference. This event brings together a vibrant, diverse community focused on building an unencumbered, first-class, 3D engine poised to revolutionize real-time 3D development across a variety of applications—from game development, metaverse, digital twin, and AI, to automotive, healthcare, robotics, and more.

NTSA October Webinar – Open Standards and Applications Towards the Military Metaverse

Organized by the National Training & Simulation Association (NTSA). Cesium's Shehzan Mohammed joins Gastao De Figueiredo, SVP Strategic Partnerships, Blackshark.ai; Nadine Alameh, Ph.D. CEO of Open Geospatial Consortium; Neil Trevett, VP, Developer Ecosystems, NVIDIA; and Moderator Jennifer Arnold of NVIDIA to discuss ongoing efforts to create open standards for the metaverse, and how they apply to GEMS (Gaming, Exercise, Modeling and Simulation) use cases. Other topics include the impact of geospatial data and its semantic representation, the goals of the Metaverse Standards Forum, and where to learn more.

OGC Member Meeting: Metaverse Special Session

Shehzan Mohammed will represent Cesium in this discussion about Geo standards for the Metaverse and the Geo for the Metaverse Working Group, which is envisioned to be the liaison between OGC and the Metaverse community. It will represent OGC in the Metaverse Standards Forum - bringing all the community's work on 3D (3D Tiles/I3S/3D Portrayal/ CityGML/ WTMS/GeoVolumes API/etc) , modeling & simulation (CDB/IndoorGML/InfraGML/PipelineML/ARML/GeoPose/etc), OGC APIs, and more to the forefront.

WDBE 2022

Shehzan Mohammed, Cesium's Director of 3D Engineering & Ecosystems, will be speaking at World of Digital Built Environment (WDBE). WDBE has become a platform for the growing global AEC community, highlighting the brightest minds and most cutting-edge digital solutions improving our urban future.

2022 P3DL CoP Conference

Brady Moore, Cesium's Director of Mission Support will present, "Building a Data-First Approach to Modernizing Multi-Domain 3D Visualization" at the 2022 P3DL (Photogrammetry, 3D Visualization, and Lidar Community of Practice) Conference.

Building the Open Metaverse - SIGGRAPH 2022

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi and Marc Petit, VP, Unreal Engine Ecosystem at Epic Games, co-organized this 2-part, full-day course to bring technical experts from across the community together to share their vision and contributions to an open metaverse.

The course introduces the fundamental concepts and building blocks for the open metaverse, covering the current state and potential future directions. The themes of openness, collaboration, and interoperability are woven throughout the topics.

Presenters include:

Nadine Alameh, CEO, Open Geospatial Consortium

Rev Lebaredian, Vice President, Omniverse & Simulation Technology, NVIDIA

Steve May, CTO, Pixar Animation Studios

Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist, Roblox

Jeff Petersen, Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services

Guido Quaroni, Senior Director of Engineering, Adobe 3D&I

Neal Stephenson, Cofounder, Lamina1 and Author, Snow Crash

Natalya Tatarchuk, Distinguished Technical Fellow and Chief Architect, VP, Professional Artistry & Graphics Innovation, Unity Technologies

Neil Trevett, President, The Khronos Group, and VP, Developer Ecosystems, NVIDIA

Building the Open Metaverse in Philadelphia

SIM Philadelphia

The metaverse has come into the limelight with everything from coverage on CNBC to Roblox's creator platform to Facebook's rename to Meta.  What is or may become the metaverse?  What computing trends - from game engines to VR to AR wearables - are enabling this?  What does it mean for the metaverse to be open and how can we facilitate openness with open standards?  And how is Philadelphia-based tech startup, Cesium, playing a role in building the metaverse?

GEOBuiz Summit

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will discuss Architecture, Engineering, and Infrastructure at this annual gathering of geospatial business leaders.

USGIF GEOINT Symposium 2022

The USGIF GEOINT Symposium is the nation's largest gathering of GEOINT professionals.

Visit the Cesium team in BOOTH 1011 to see easy ways to integrate One World Terrain data with hi-res insets, move from 2D to 3D, access and stream metadata with 3D Tiles Next, and leverage game engine technology to build never-before-seen applications and experiences with Cesium for Unreal.

Monday, April 25

2-3 PM - Training Session: Creating Accurate, Global-Scale Realtime Simulations with Cesium for Unreal Engine
Presented by Nithin Pranesh, Cesium for Unreal Developer

Tuesday, April 26

1:40 PM - Lightning Talk: 3D Tiles Next: Data Performance for the Future of 3D Geospatial
Presented by Brady Moore, Director of Mission Support

3:30-4:15 PM - Panel: What is the Metaverse Anyway?
Moderated by Patrick Cozzi, CEO

Khronos Group WebGL Meetup

The Khronos Group hosts this virtual WebGL meetup that includes experts from Google, Intel, Mozilla, and Cesium.

Sean Lilley will discuss how 3D Tiles Next uses glTF to scale massive models and its efficient implementation in WebGL.

New Space Workshop: How Can We Build Space from Scratch?

SSSI and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) are partnering on this virtual event to discuss New Space.

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will join a panel discussion on "Evolving the New Space Ecosystem," along with Prashant Shukle, COO, KorrAI; Joe Morrison, VP Commercial Product, Umbra; Mani Thiru, Space Industry Development Asia Pacific, AWS; and moderator Bill Barrett, Senior VP, Asia Pacific Aerospace Consultants.

Combining High-performance Simulation, New Gaming Technologies and Defence Innovation

Brady Moore, Cesium's Director of Mission Support, joins experts from NATO Modelling and Simulation Group, Epic Games, and the Foundation for Strategic Research to discuss how game technology can support high-intensity warfare training.

Metaverse Session at 121st OGC Member Meeting

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will participate in a special public session on the metaverse during the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)'s 121st Member Meeting. The week-long event of Standards Working Group meetings, special sessions, workshops, and keynotes will take place December 6-14, 2021.

I/ITSEC 2021

The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) is the world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training event. Visit Cesium in booth 2634.

Web3D Conference

Cesium's Peter Gagliardi will discuss Cesium and 3D Tiles at this international conference on 3D Web technology hosted by SIGGRAPH.

NVIDIA GTC 21

Cesium CEO Patrick Cozzi will join a panel of global Metaverse futurists and luminaries for "A Vision of the Metaverse." Experts will share their vision of the Metaverse, its potential, and what needs to happen to build the foundation.

Dean Takahashi, Lead Writer, GamesBeat/VentureBeat

Tim Sweeney, Founder and CEO, Epic Games

Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist, Roblox

Rev Lebaredian, VP of Simulation Technology and Omniverse Engineering, NVIDIA

Patrick Cozzi, CEO, Cesium

Willim Cui, Vice President of Tencent Games, Tencent

Christina Heller, CEO, Metastage

Jinsoo Jeon, VP, Head of Metaverse Company, SK Telecom

DINAcon: "swissgeol.ch - a technological innovation"

Cesium's Sam Rothstein will join experts from Camptocamp and the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo, to discuss how open source software like CesiumJS makes creating 3D visualizations accessible to a broad range of professionals.

Geospatial World Forum

Cesium is a proud sponsor of GWF and will lead the plenary session on AEC and Digital Cities and participate in a panel discussion on "The Rise of Data Platforms & Fusion for Defence Intelligence."

O3DE CON

Cesium's Shehzan Mohammed and Bao Tran will present, "Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds: Cesium and 3D Tiles for O3DE" at this conference by the O3D Foundation that explores open source collaboration in gaming.